James MOUNCE & Aileen GERAGHTY - Auckland

James MOUNCE was born in Auckland in 1857
- parents unknown at this time
- he died in 1941 aged 84

Aileen GERAGHTY was born on 31 July 1864 Howick, Auckland
- a daughter of Charles GERAGHTY and Mary Ann CHILDERHOUSE
- (GERAGHTY was the spelling on his father's military record and his parents marriage certificate, but sometimes written Gerrighty)
Aileen's mother, Mary Ann Geraghty, nee Childerhouse was the Aunty of these Childerhouse children, those of her brother, John CHILDERHOUSE & his wife Mary Isabella MOSS. Aileen was a cousin of the children at that link - big thanks to GlenH for sorting me out on that :)
AILEEN died in 1929 aged 64

JAMES & AILEEN married in 1886
- their known children were:

... 1
1888 - 1963 James Mounce
- James married Alice Lloyd SPEER in 1912
- James died aged 75

... 2
1890 - Mary Ann Mounce
- married William Charles DAVIES in 1916

... 3
1892 - 1892 Charles Mounce
- Charles died aged 9 days

... 4
1893 - 1916 Charles Leslie Mounce
- Charles served in WWI as Private 12/3431 with the Auckland Infantry Battalion 8th Reinforcements
- his Next Of Kin was his father James Mounce, 6 Hepburn Street, Ponsonby, Auckland
- he DIED OF WOUNDS in France 15 July 1916

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Aileen Gerrighty was the posthumous daughter of Charles Gerrighty, who drowned off Howick Beach in January 1864. His father, Thomas, was a Fencible and the family arrived in Howick in 1847. There is a grave with a headstone in All Saints Churchyard in Howick for Mary Ann Childerhouse and other members of her family, but no marked grave for Charles. Thomas and his wife disappeared about nine months after arriving in Howick.

Charles and Mary Ann's eldest child was my great grandfather, also Charles. He died as the result of a carting accident in Thames, in the mid-1890s. There was another daughter.

There is a file on the family in the Howick Historical Village library

My grandmother was Phoebe Gerrighty, Thomas' youngest daughter. She was about 3 years old when her father died. Of that generation, only the three daughters lived. There were four boys, three of whom died soon after birth and the eldest, Charles died aged about 7, from diphtheria.

The grave of Thomas and Eliza Gentles is near the gate of All Saints Anglican Church in Howick and has a memorial for Thomas and Sarah Childerhouse. I believe this is the only headstone on the older family graves at Howick.

Charles Geraghty's cousin Mary Isabella (Moss) Morse, the daughter of Fencible James Morse and Isabella Newell married John Childerhouse (son of Thomas and Sarah Childerhouse and brother of Mary Ann) in 1864.